In their motion for new trial they did contend, however, that the withdrawal of these issues from the jury was error because it was in effect an amendment of the indictment.
Plato emphasises the point by having Cleitophon and Polemarchus recapitulate the argument, with the former charitably suggesting that Thrasymachus meant that the just is whatever the stronger decrees thinking it is to his advantage (in effect, an amendment to (2) which would remove the contradiction): a solution which Thrasymachus vehemently rejects (340a-c).
(a) of this section through the device of effecting an amendment to section 302(f) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, was repealed by section 75 5) of Pub.
The difficulties you mention with the proposed victims' rights amendment to the Constitution (editorial, April 8), including the effect such an amendment would have on defendants' rights and prosecutorial discretion, point to a deeper issue.
Mr. Brownback's move had the effect of killing an amendment by Senators Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, and Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, to tighten language barring banks from proprietary trading, or playing the markets with their own money -- a restriction generally known as the Volcker rule for the former Fed chairman Paul A. Volcker, who proposed the idea.
Held: Agins substantially advance[s] formula is not an appropriate test for determining whether a regulation effects a Fifth Amendment taking.
And even if it were passed, it could have little practical effect unless it were an amendment to the State Constitution, since lawmakers can and routinely do supersede existing law in the budget process.
The law passed in July 1965 and effected on February 1, 1966 was an amendment to the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and was intended to regulate the unlicensed "possession, manufacture, or sale of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs".
If the benefits of 2 or more defined benefit plans established or maintained by an employer are coordinated in such a manner as to have the effect of the adoption of an amendment described in subclause (I), the sponsor of the defined benefit plan or plans providing for such coordination shall be treated as having adopted such a plan amendment as of the date such coordination begins.
In fact, requesting a split vote on an amendment is in effect tabling a new amendment, i.e. tabling an amendment on an amendment.
